U+1D746 "𝝆" Mathematical Bold Italic Small Rho Unicode Character

U+1D746 "𝝆" Mathematical Bold Italic Small Rho is a typographic variant of the Greek letter rho, specifically designed for mathematical notation and included in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. It presents the rho in a bold italic style, which is commonly used to distinguish vector quantities, variables in tensor calculus, or other specialized mathematical objects from ordinary text. This character helps maintain clear and consistent formatting in technical documents, allowing authors to denote specific meanings such as resistivity or density in equations without ambiguity. Like all characters in this Unicode block, it is intended for semantic use in mathematics rather than as a decorative text symbol.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D746
Version Added	3.1
Name	Mathematical Bold Italic Small Rho
Block	Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Font
Decomposition Mapping	"ρ" U+03C1 Greek Small Letter Rho

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𝝆
HTML Hex Encoding	𝝆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9D 0x9D 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD835 0xDF46
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D746
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud835\udf46

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Cased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ρ" U+03C1 Greek Small Letter Rho
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ρ" U+03C1 Greek Small Letter Rho
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Math	Yes
Other Math	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower